OPENING (FREE) WRITING EXERCISE Welcome to Artifact Lab 7 of 8. Please begin with this exercise on your own and we’ll begin together at 1:08PM PST. Lists concrete sensory details, sensory knowledge that has to do with the notion of essential labor/work. What to you is essential labor/work? Who do you know does essential labor/work? What do you sense or imagine that labor/work to look, sound, feel, taste, smell like? Or simply finish this prompt: Work is/Labor is…
WELCOME TO ARTIFACT LAB 7 OF 8! WORKSHOP PRINCIPLES Care for self, care for others, care for body, care for land, careful work toward genuine & practical freedoms & decolonizations. Set intentions upfront—for whom & for what are you showing up? Think, read, listen, & create with a humble, generous, & “radical intellectual openness” (Critical Ethnic Studies Collective) which is to say, CREATE DANGEROUSLY (Edwidge Danticat via Camus) & CREATE CONTINGENTLY, be open to experimentation, play, and failure, rather, be open to learning through writing.
LEARNING OUTCOME To compose an artifact about, around, surrounding labor or work. THE PROCESS FREE WRITE sensing essential labor and work INTRODUCTION what inspires this laboratory METHODOLOGY gather all language: collage as reading world GUIDING TEXT Kate Rushin, from The Black Back-Ups MODEL TEXT Ross Gay, “A Small Needful Fact” FORM/IDEA Subtle Shift of Frame and Tone WRITING TIME compose an artifact SHARE share, reflect, lift each other
GUIDING TEXT Kate Rushin, from The Black Back-Ups (1993)
MODEL TEXT Ross Gay, “A Small Needful Fact”
FORM Free verse.
WRITING TIME Drawing on what you wrote in the opening writing exercise, any of the texts we have encountered today, and any other line or fragment in front of you or inside of you, compose a free verse poem in which you describe labor/work with a slightly shifted frame and tone. OR write whatever is calling you at the moment. CITE YOUR SOURCES AS A PRAXIS OF INTELLECTUAL KINSHIP AND SOLIDARITY.
JASON MAGABO PEREZ
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